The Holt

The Holt is a small country house that features a tablet dated 1687 in its pediment. It has 18th century additions and was restored around 1935 by Trenwith Wells. The building is constructed of brick with blue headers and has an old plain tile roof. Originally built in the late 17th century, it is a six-bay by two-bay hipped house with a stair tower at the rear center. A wing was added to the rear on the left side in the 18th century, along with a lower ridged three-bay wing at the left end, which is slightly set back and has 20th century additions behind it.

The main facade has two storeys and an attic over a basement, featuring six bays. It sits on a brick plinth with rusticated quoins at the corners and a slightly projecting pediment over the central two bays. The central entrance consists of a 20th century six-panel double door in a pedimented doorcase flanked by Corinthian pilasters. On either side are narrow 20th century 12-pane flush-frame sash windows with rubbed brick arches. The other bays contain 18th century 12-pane flush-frame sashes under similar rubbed brick arches, with blind boxes. A moulded string course runs along the first floor, which has six similar sashes. Above the central bays is a coved plaster cornice and pediment featuring a bull's eye window, a coved surround, and the date tablet in the apex. The roof has 18th century hipped two-light dormers on either side. The tall hipped roof is topped with a stack to the right of the central bays and a large multiflue stack at the left end.

The left wing is three bays, two storeys over a basement, with three sashes on each floor that are spaced unevenly, and a ridge stack near the left hip of the roof. Inside the main building, there is a late 17th century staircase with turned balusters, a moulded handrail, a moulded string, and a square newel post. The inner hall features moulded elliptical arches on either side of the staircase, with dado panelling and 18th century chimneypieces in the ground and first-floor rooms. The top floor has 17th century oak panelling.